Candidus

(Κάνδιδος), a Greek author, who lived about the time of the emperors Commodus and Severus, about A. D. 200, and wrote a work on the Hexameron, which is referred to by Eusebius. (Hist. Eccl. 5.27; comp. Hieronym. De Scriptor. Eccl. 48.) [L.S]

an Arian who flourished about the middle of the fourth century. Works De Generatione Divina

He was the author of a tract De Generatione Divina, addressed to his friend Marius Victorinus, who wrote in reply De Generatione Verbi Divini sive Confutatorium Candidi Ariani ad eundem. ED

Mabillon published in his Analecta (Paris, 1685, fol.) a "Fragmentum Epistolae Candidi Ariani ad Marium Victorinum," which Oudin first pointed out to be in reality a portion of the "De Generatione Divina." Both are printed in the Bibliotheca Patrum of Galland, vol. viii. [Victorinus.] Further Information

Oudin, De Script. Eeccl. vol. i. p. 528; Schönemann, Bibl. Patrum Latinorum, 100.4.13 and 14, Lips. 1792. [W.R]

(Κάνδιδος Ἴσαυρος), a Byzantine historian, a native of Isauria, whence his surname Isaurus. He lived in the reign of the emperor Anastasius, and held a high public office in his native country. He is called a man of great influence and an orthodox Christian, which is inferred from his advocating the decrees of the council of Chalcedon. Works History of the Byzantine Empire

His history of the Byzantine empire, in three books, which is now lost, began with the election of the emperor Leo the Thracian, and came down to the death of Zeno the Isaurian. It therefore embraced the period from A. D. 457 to 491.

A summary of its contents is preserved in Photius (cod. 79), to whom we are also indebted for the few facts concerning the life of Candidus which we have mentioned, and who censures the style of the historian for its affectation of poetical beauties.

A small fragment of the work is preserved by Suidas (s. v. Χειρίζω). Editions

The extant fragments of Candidus are printed in the appendix to "Eclogae Historicorum de Reb. Byz.," ed. Labbe, which forms an appendix to " Excerpta de Legationibus, &c." ed. D. Hoeschelius, published by C. A. Fabrotus, Paris, 1648. They are also contained in the edition of Dexippus, Eunapius, &c. published in the Bonn collection of Byzantine writers. Further Information

Comp. Hanke, Byz. Rer. Script. 2.3, p. 672, &c.; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vii. p. 543. [L.S]

one of the consular envoys despatched by Didius Julianus and the senate in A. D. 192, for the purpose of inducing the troops of Septimius Severus to abandon their leader, who had been declared a public enemy. Not only did Candidus fail in accomplishing the object of his mission, but he very narrowly escaped being put to death by the soldiers, who recollected the harshness he had formerly displayed towards those under his command. We find him, nevertheless, at a subsequent period (193) employed as a legate by Severus, first in Asia Minor, against Pescennius Niger, and afterwards (194) against the Arabians and other barbarous tribes on the confines of Syria and Mesopotamia. On both occasions he did good service; for, by his exhortations and example, the fortune of the day was turned at the great battle of Nicaea; and, acting in conjunction with Lateranus, he reduced to submission the turbulent chiefs of Adiabene and Osroene. (D. C. 73.16, 74.6, 75.2; Spartian. Julian. 5.) [W.R]